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Mike CurtisMike Curtis writes and runs HD for Indies, a consultancy and website dedicated to using affordable digital technology for independent filmmaking. Mike started HD for Indies after a 15 year digital media career making content for everything from cell phones to cinema screens for clients such as Ford, Dell, Compaq, etc.. As a consultant, he focuses on production and post production hardware, software, and workflows to achieve maximum results at a variety of budget levels. 
Red (finally) takes the wraps off new camera - Scarlet-XCanon’s new EOS C300 digital cinema line - competition for Red or Sony?Single Chip Camera Evaluation screening tomorrow morning at CineGearCome see my footage from F3 S-log & Leica Summilux-C lenses TONIGHT at CineGearMike finally gets to play with an Epic-M and HDRxMike’s NAB 2011 Day One Part OneComing to NAB? Come see results of our 12 camera test Tuesday nightYo, Creative Pros—Apple Doesn’t Love You Any More. Here’s why.Did Apple actually lame out on the new Mac Pros?New Quad Cores: iMac or Mac Pro?Apple Releases New iMacs - good enough for video editing?Apple Announces New 12 core Macs….for $5000I went and saw nitrate prints and Soderbergh on the same evening…Arri Alexa - look out Red!Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketingThe Return of BlogwadAperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ‘09 migrationAnother good article on color correction from StuOn iPhoto to Aperture 3 migration difficulties and new hard drivesGreat new blog to read - PostWorldGiz Explains: Why ISO Is the New MegapixelAperture 3 announced - time to upgrade from iPhoto ‘09?WOW! Here’s why to go cheap/fast/light!iPad Follow-up Thoughts - thoughts on v2 hardware and v1.5 softwareApple’s iPad - All the Details, What It Means For Us
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Nikon D90 vs Red’s Scarlet - Specdown!Does the Nikon D90 pose a threat to (the specs only of) Red’s Scarlet?
Nikon is about to ship the D90, a 12MP DSLR that shoots HD movies. Wait a minute, doesn’t that sound a lot like Red’s Scarlet? If you aren’t familiar with the D90, check out my post on the neat little camera. And more importantly, what will this trend mean for the industry at large? Read on to see how the about-to-be-released Nikon D90 stacks up against the current specs for next year’s Red Scarlet. more »
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Nikon D90 - nice DSLR that also shoots HD videoNikon’s new stills camera shoots nice 720p movies
Nikon is about to ship their new DX format DSLR, the D90. So why should you care? Because it also shoots 720p movies. Yep, that’s right - 1280x720, progressive frame, nice depth of field (roughly equivalent to Super35mm/Red One), 24 frame per second movies. With sound. How much? $1000 for the body, $1300 with an 18-105mm lens. Read on for the deets. more »
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iSee4K - MUST HAVE iPhone/iPod Touch app for Red One usersPerfect little app calculates DoF, FoV, frame rates, storage, etc.
My buddy Paul Alvarado sent me a link to this one - it is a GREAT little app for iPhone/iPod Touch that is a MUST have for anybody working with a Red One camera that can have an iPhone/iPod Touch on set. It is called iSee4K, and it helps you figure out a bunch of the things you need to know both for the cinematography as well as data wrangling aspects of the Red One camera. If you ever saw my post on Red One Geekery: Real World Info on Redcode, you saw the handy charts that showed data rates, maximum frame rates, frame sizes, codecs, etc. It took several charts to contain all that info, there’s lots of variables, and it is too much to keep in your head. So Edward Watkins has turned all that and more into a handy little iPhone App. Read on for the most excellent deets. more »HEY! Apple releases ProRes for WindowsFree ProRes Decoder for both Mac & Windows Poking around looking for some information for a client on workflow, stumbled across this little bon mot - Apple has released a FREE ProRes codec for Mac & Windows - it is mentioned on this page towards the bottom, and there are links for the decoders included:
Analysis follows after the jump. more »Advertisement Red One Geekery: Real World Info on RedcodeEverything you wanted to know about shooting Redcode, but were afraid to ask - Part 1 Shortly after I got my Red One camera, I went out to go play with it. I wanted to do some baseline testing - from my many talks with Graeme Nattress, Red’s codec guru, I knew that Redcode was a variable bitrate codec. That means that the datarate can vary depending on the content of the scene. OK…so how MUCH can it vary? Quite a bit, I found out. Read on for this and other geekery… more »
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Making Movies Now - bigger, sometimes better, definitely riskierWhy moviemaking is getting bigger, sometimes better, but definitely more dangerous I opened the LA Times today and the front of the Calendar section was dominated by a picture of Brad Pitt sprawled on a couch with the headline Sparking Curiosity with the subhead “The trailer for ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ is everything it should be” and talks about the buzz around the movie. The company where I’ve been working the last 3 months provided the cameras, recording system and workflow, same as was done for Zodiac (I mentioned this in Couple bits of awesomeness the other day). A fun read about how great the trailer looks to be. Reading the continuation on page E4, that dovetailed into a minor article entitiled “Indie biz needs more discipline” - which discusses the 99.9% chance of failure of a movie budgeted under $10M. Hmm…what does this imply? Read on. more »Couple bits of awesomenessRed Build 16 and Ben Buttons trailer Quick note on some things: a.) Busy, not dead. Waaaaaaaay busy. b.) The trailer is (finally) out for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was shot digitally on the Viper, recorded to S.two recorders. I’ve been working with the vendor that provided the gear, it is nice to see what masters of the game (director David Fincher, DoP Claudio Miranda) can do with digital tools when they commit and know EXACTLY what they are doing. c.) Red Build 16 is imminent, and it is a Big Deal for those tracking Red. Months later than wanted/expected, but major new stuff in there. IF it does what Jannard and crew claim, I’d say the Red will have finally, fully arrived, fulfilling virtually all of the promised capabilities. (How soon till we can save curves on Red Alert and load into camera?) more »The very, very serious problem with democratization of technology in moviemakingLA Times article on tough times for indies Times are tough for indies right now - I just finished reading an LA Times article - Cloudy skies for Cannes indie market talking about how tough the market is for indie (as in, non-studio produced) content these days. And I think technology is largely to blame. Backing up, here’s the evidence, as stated in the LA Times article: -the number of buyers for indie are are thinning:
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2D Footage with a Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5
Edit and Optimize 2D Stereo Pairs from a 3D Video Camera or Twin Cameras with a Modified Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5
Adobe included a 1-step option to create a 3D Stereo Camera Rig in After Effects CS5.5, to everyone’s enthusiasm for a simpler workflow in 3D space. Great if you are working in 3D space in After Effects, but what about an easy option for 3D Stereo pairs captured by a 3D camera or twin cameras on a rig? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly modify the Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects to quickly mux your L&R video files and adjust the convergence for anaglyph, interlaced or stereo pairs output.
How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot
A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.
Our friends at Datavideo recently asked me to write an article called How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot. The article covers many factors involved in accomplishing that goal, including framerate, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, and menu settings in Datavideo’s digital HD video mixers (“switchers”) and recorders, and also the menu settings in several pro cameras from Canon, Panasonic, and Sony. The included chart explains which of the cameras have a direct HD-SDI output, and which require an optional converter to go from HDMI to HD-SDI to connect to the Datavideo digital HD video mixer. As you’ll see in the article, the approach is quite different from the workflows I normally cover, which are more appropriate when programs are to be edited, as opposed to when they are shot —and potentially broadcast— live. The graphics for this article were done by Victory Elliot of Datavideo Corporation.
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